Re: Should directory of uncompiled elisp file be added to load-path

[Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>]

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net> said: 
> 
> > Hi all, I wondering about load-path bloat and whether it matters.
> 
> > http://bugs.debian.org/189754 said that when help was listed about a
> > function of mine, the user couldn't click on the function name to
> > move point to the source code.
> 
> > That's because I add the compiled lisp directory to to load-path,
> > but not the directory of the sources themselves.
> 
> 	I add both; the compiled ones at the front of the laod path,
>  and the sources at the tail, like so:
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>  (if (fboundp 'debian-pkg-add-load-path-item)
>      (setq load-path (debian-pkg-add-load-path-item (concat "/usr/share/"
>                                             (symbol-name 
>                                              debian-emacs-flavor)
>                                             "/site-lisp/gnus")))
>    (setq load-path (cons (concat "/usr/share/"
>                                  (symbol-name debian-emacs-flavor)
>                                  "/site-lisp/gnus") load-path)))
>  ;; Make sure that the uncompiled files are also in the
>  ;; laod-path, though near the end.
>  (setq load-path (nconc load-path 
>                         (list "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnus/lisp")))
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

I'm been using this since, but have a new problem.

My package provides ibuffer.el but XEmacs already has one of those.
Even if I skip byte-compiling it for XEmacs, the directory 
"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el" appears _before_
"/usr/share/xemacs21/xemacs-packages/lisp/ibuffer" in the load-path.

I guess XEmacs fill-out its load-path only later on.emacs-goodies-el.
It appears to be the same case in Emacs as well.

So how do we make sure the source load-path really appear at the end?

Thanks for ideas,
Peter